Award season is upon us, and right now, everyone is making their bets on who is going to win an Oscar or Grammy or Tony or Emmy or whatever awards people care about these days.

Whenever something or someone wins an award, they are given all of the props. However, if they don't win anything or they are completely snubbed, does that make them less talented? Of course not!

The fact that awards have been made to define anyone's career or future is troublesome. We still watch the movies and the TV shows and we still listen to the music regardless of how many trophies they have. We still respect them as a talented person.

If we can do that with celebrities, then we should be able to do that with anyone right?

Growing up, I was bullied a lot because I am on the spectrum, and people thought I was stupid. As I got older, I thought that if I had some kind of position and got an award or something, then maybe people will stop making fun of me and actually respect me.

I wanted people to be proud of me and see me as someone that could be taken seriously in terms of my future career to erase the bad reputation of journalists being seen as "fake news."

During my community college days, student life had several different contests. One of them was a Trunk or Treat in which student organizations decorated their trunks and passed out candy to kids and created a safe environment for trick-or-treating. There was a prize involved, which now made me wonder if clubs did it for the award or because they wanted to help out a community.

We often become so focused on the end goal and the prize we often forget why we had that event in the first place—why did we write that story, why did we make that movie, why did we do anything at all?

Was it for the award, or was it because you wanted to make a difference?

It should never be for the fame or the perks—it should be because you want to do a good thing. I mean awards are cool and all, and some of them do look good on a resume, but when you look at when applying for jobs, does the employer care about the award you got or the event you held?

Awards and titles should never determine a person's worth, so why do we let it happen? I think sometimes we are so busy trying to earn other peoples approval we forget to actually realize who we are and what our talents are.

Awards are great to have sometimes, but if you don't get one it doesn't make you untalented, it doesn't make you any less of a person. They may seem great on display, but the true talent is within.